"Causality" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The relating of causes to the effects they produce. Causes are termed necessary when they must always precede an effect and sufficient when they initiate or produce an effect. Any of several factors may be associated with the potential disease causation or outcome, including predisposing factors, enabling factors, precipitating factors, reinforcing factors, and risk factors.
| Descriptor ID |
D015984
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N05.715.350.200 N06.850.490.625
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| Concept/Terms |
Multifactorial Causality- Multifactorial Causality
- Causalities, Multifactorial
- Causality, Multifactorial
- Multifactorial Causalities
Multiple Causation- Multiple Causation
- Causation, Multiple
- Causations, Multiple
- Multiple Causations
Reinforcing Factors- Reinforcing Factors
- Factor, Reinforcing
- Factors, Reinforcing
- Reinforcing Factor
Enabling Factors- Enabling Factors
- Enabling Factor
- Factor, Enabling
- Factors, Enabling
Predisposing Factors- Predisposing Factors
- Factor, Predisposing
- Factors, Predisposing
- Predisposing Factor
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1999 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2000 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2001 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2008 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2009 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2013 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2019 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2020 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2022 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Causality" by people in Profiles.
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Observational studies in Alzheimer disease: bridging preclinical studies and clinical trials. Nat Rev Neurol. 2022 Dec; 18(12):747-757.
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Negative Control Exposures: Causal Effect Identifiability and Use in Probabilistic-bias and Bayesian Analyses With Unmeasured Confounders. Epidemiology. 2022 Nov 01; 33(6):832-839.
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Separating Algorithms From Questions and Causal Inference With Unmeasured Exposures: An Application to Birth Cohort Studies of Early Body Mass Index Rebound. Am J Epidemiol. 2021 07 01; 190(7):1414-1423.
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Methods to Address Self-Selection and Reverse Causation in Studies of Neighborhood Environments and Brain Health. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 06 16; 18(12).
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Elevated Depressive Symptoms and the Risk of Stroke among the Mexican Older Population. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2020 11; 68(11):2579-2586.
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Association of Mortality and Years of Potential Life Lost With Active Tuberculosis in the United States. JAMA Netw Open. 2020 09 01; 3(9):e2014481.
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Changes in Mortality in Top 10 Causes of Death from 2011 to 2018. J Gen Intern Med. 2021 08; 36(8):2517-2518.
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Safety surveillance and the estimation of risk in select populations: Flexible methods to control for confounding while targeting marginal comparisons via standardization. Stat Med. 2020 02 20; 39(4):369-386.
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The Effects of Reverse Causality and Selective Attrition on the Relationship Between Body Mass Index and Mortality in Postmenopausal Women. Am J Epidemiol. 2019 10 01; 188(10):1838-1848.
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Analysis of Body Mass Index and Mortality in Patients With Colorectal Cancer Using Causal Diagrams. JAMA Oncol. 2016 Sep 01; 2(9):1137-45.